Nonprofit — Donor-Advised Funds Pause Grants After Indictment, Shifting Donor Focus

Nonprofit · 2026-05-07

Today's nonprofit landscape reveals three converging pressures: institutional trust fractures, workforce sustainability crises, and democratic infrastructure erosion. The most operationally urgent signal is the commercial donor-advised fund freeze on Southern Poverty Law Center grants following a federal indictment — a precedent-setting move that exposes how concentrated DAF platforms (Fidelity…